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François Picard is pleased to welcome Dr. Gershon Baskin, former hostage negotiator and Middle East Director of the International Communities Organisation. As someone deeply embedded in the realities of the …

Ahead of the 2026 Academy Awards, take a look at the titles that have been adapted into some of the recognized films, and books that perfectly accompany others

Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about printed works that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions and more. This …

Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about works that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions — or even books. …

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the premiere of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” now streaming on HBO Max. Westeros is not ready for “A Knight of the …

For your book The West: The History of an Idea, you spent 12 years researching what people mean when they talk about “the west”. At a time when America’s president …

A shake-up of New Zealand’s curriculum has resulted in Māori words being scrapped from a selection of books used to teach five-year-olds and a decision not to reprint a well-loved …

Indonesia has delayed plans to publish a set of controversial history books amid backlash from historians and activists who have accused the project of being an attempt to downplay past …

In 2018 we brought you some excit­ing news. Thanks to a gen­er­ous dona­tion from Da Vin­ci Code author Dan Brown, Amsterdam’s Rit­man Library—a siz­able col­lec­tion of pre-1900 books on alche­my, …

Implicit in any piece of writing is a stab at answering a perennial question: Whose story gets to be remembered? That’s true for not only the half-dozen books below — …